Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 1202

There was no wound on Edan Bajur’s neck.

No scars that looked like they had healed, no traces, not even a cut.

It was as if Edan’s own body was perfectly preserved, with no damage to his skin.

“……!!!”

In the slow-moving time, Lenok’s eyes widened as he confirmed the sight.

Beyond the flickering blue flames, Edan’s face was expressionless. A calm reaction as if he felt no emotion in this situation.

The moment he met that gaze, Lenok’s thoughts rapidly accelerated and overflowed in all directions.

‘There’s no wound. Why?’

After learning that Kaise’s head had been cut off in the ruins of Kundara, Lenok had thought that Edan Bajur was the culprit.

The reason why he hadn’t returned to the legion and wandered the continent until now, and why he had only just returned to headquarters.

A series of rumors that he had regained his body and was reborn in the Four Heavenly Demon Realm [a powerful faction or region].

The way he was ‘supporting’ his neck during the strategy meeting, and the blood that flowed between his fingers.

And decisively, the series of actions that seemed to equate the failure of the project with himself.

Even though he had come to a conclusion in his mind and thought he was about to confirm the fact with his own eyes.

At the point of confirming Edan’s neck, all those premises and conclusions were deviating from what Lenok had thought.

Was the Edan standing in front of Lenok not someone who had cut off Kaise’s head and attached it to his own body?

Was he existing in this world as Edan, not Kaise, with his own body as it was born in this world?

If so, then all the stories Lenok had heard about the project were not about Kaise, but about Edan-

Crack.

Lenok’s thoughts, which had been spreading at an incredible speed for a fleeting moment, could no longer continue.

At the same time as Edan twisted his hand, which had pierced Lenok’s heart, blue flames overflowed like an explosion.

Whoosh!!

The fragments of the perfectly shattered barrier scattered in all directions, emitting a beautiful glass color.

In the middle of the garden burning with blue flames, the light of life scattered with a glass-colored glow.

Lenok’s body slammed into the wall on the opposite side of the corridor, emitting a powerful shockwave.

KWA-AAANG!!!

“……!!!”

The huge structures of the headquarters were collapsing and burning all around. The flames that had spread between them began to lose their power and die down.

The battle between Lenok and Edan was close to a fleeting moment.

However, the conclusion was reached much earlier than expected, in a way that no one had anticipated.

Leaving Lenok convulsing against the wall, Edan slowly got up, stroking his neck.

“You thought there would be a wound on my neck.”

“…….”

“You believed there would be a scar where something was cut off, or conversely, a scar where something was attached.”

Edan said with an expressionless face as he looked at Lenok.

“Either way, it seems that the result was not what you expected. It’s a shame.”

“……You are.”

Blood trickled down from the corner of Lenok’s mouth as he stared at Edan with a stiff expression.

The price for forcing himself to take Edan’s attack once and closing the distance to confirm his identity.

The backlash of ignoring the attack by scattering the flames near his heart was coming a beat late.

“I’ll make it clear here and now.”

Edan, slowly placing his hand on Lenok’s shoulder, whispered in a faint voice.

“I am not the person you think I am. And I am certainly not the person you want me to be.”

“…….”

“I’m here to get back what I once had, by any means necessary. So…”

Fwoosh!!

At that moment, Edan used his other hand to make a cut on his own neck.

Edan, who had soaked his hand in his own blood dripping down his neck, muttered.

“It wouldn’t be difficult to cross the line one more time.”

“What… what are you trying to do?”

“I’m trying to confirm whether your talent and existence were the result of the project.”

Edan said, bringing his blood to Lenok’s wound.

“But human talent or aptitude is not a simple concept that can be judged by a simple test.”

“…….”

“So, I’m going to make your talent and potential explode to their limits, and check the error values that occur in the process.”

Edan replied, pushing his blood-stained hand into Lenok’s heart area.

“If it causes errors in the same way I used to edit human talent a long time ago, I’ll know if you originated from the project.”

“Potential isn’t a concept that can be quantified like that…”

Lenok coughed weakly, his chest pierced by Edan’s hand.

“Forcibly making human talent or aptitude explode is, in the first place-”

“No. It’s something that has already been successfully tested several times within the legion.”

“…What?”

While Lenok paused at the completely unexpected answer, Edan answered calmly.

“The original purpose of the operation system is the inheritance and preservation of talent. To put it crudely, it’s a power closer to a degraded version of the project.”

“…….”

“It seems that the system didn’t work on you, but if I use my blood as a trigger, it’s not difficult to do something similar.”

Fwaaaat!!!

At the same time as Edan’s blood seeped into Lenok’s body, complex lines began to be engraved on Lenok’s body.

A strange sight as if his entire body was being disassembled like a complex circuit, and forcibly imprinted into Lenok’s inner self.

A phenomenon that seemed to forcibly reset and insert ‘commands’ into the human inner self.

“Kuh…!!”

Fwaaaat!!!!

At that moment, intense light burst out from Lenok’s entire body and began to surge.

A phenomenon as if all the cells and tissues that made up his body were simultaneously activated and forcibly awakened.

Immediately after, magical power flowed out of Lenok’s body like crazy, engulfing Edan and Lenok and creating a powerful storm.

KWAAAAAAA!!!!!!

“It won’t take long. There weren’t that many seekers who chased the project, or transcendents like you.”

“…….”

“If I use my blood at this point, I won’t be able to avoid the backlash either…”

Edan muttered, looking down at Lenok with an expressionless face.

“Just as you did when you looked at me, I think I need to clarify your existence here and now.”

“I see…”

Lenok muttered, slowly raising his gaze.

“So you’re still clinging to the past, enough to try to confirm my existence even if it’s unreasonable.”

Whirrrl!!!

At that moment, the flames engulfing Lenok’s entire body began to burn his body completely.

Lenok’s eyes, which had slowly lifted their gaze, were now clearly focused, unlike before.

“Just confirming that fact makes this moment meaningful.”

“…Martinez.”

Edan turned his gaze with an expressionless face at Lenok’s unexpected reaction.

Normally, at this point, Lenok’s mind and body should have undergone complete activation and awakened beyond their limits.

However, even after accepting Edan’s blood, Lenok was maintaining his reason instead of reacting or being swept away by it.

Edan, who intuitively understood what that fact meant, muttered in a chilling tone.

“Could it be that from the beginning, it wasn’t you but-”

Kuhwaaaak!!!!

Lenok’s arms, shoulders, neck, and face were covered in blue flames.

A miracle of changing the body into flames, which was impossible for Lenok himself, who was suffering from mana poisoning.

The reason why Lenok was able to use it without hesitation in his battle with Edan.

“Not bad for a decoy, right?”

Lenok, who conveyed his will through the body of the avatar, gave a cold smile.

“Then, it’s my turn this time.”

The moment the blue flames surged, engulfing the corridor where Lenok and Edan were standing and soaring towards the sky.

A huge pillar of fire that devoured the entire headquarters building connected the sky and the ground, emitting an intense light.

KWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWA!!!!!

* * *

“Cough… !”

Clang!!

After coughing dryly and waving his arms, he barely found a support.

At the same time as sticky oil smeared on his palm, he heard the sound of metallic objects falling down.

Wiping the blood flowing down his mouth, he barely lifted his blurry gaze to check what was in front of him.

Only after seeing the oil-soaked nuts and bolts under his feet did Lenok realize where he was.

“…The military factory I visited right before the parade.”

Was it near where he had burned to death the 8th Legion’s Brigadier General Mathis, who had provoked him?

Lenok, who had struggled to cough and get up, lost his balance and fell forward.

Thud!!

Lenok, who had slammed his head into the conveyor belt that had stopped working, trembled and slumped.

The blood that had flowed down his mouth dripped down the production line.

“I have to move, right away…”

He had clashed with Edan Bajur to hear the truth about the project and confirm his identity.

But from the beginning, Lenok didn’t think he could kill or neutralize Edan in this place.

One of the reasons was that Edan himself was an incredibly strong person, but more than anything, what Lenok was wary of was the fact that Edan was a resurrected being.

Even if Lenok poured everything into killing Edan, there was no guarantee that he wouldn’t come back to life.

However, the situation was not favorable to immediately find out Edan’s abilities or the principle of his resurrection.

That’s why Lenok had focused on thoroughly revealing Edan’s purpose and identity from the beginning.

And that was not Lenok himself, but an avatar that was like Lenok himself.

‘As planned, I succeeded in using the avatar as a decoy. But…’

Lenok switched his body with the avatar right after using the transmutation of nuclear fusion to detonate the plasma.

The reason why he had covered his entire body in plasma was to prevent Edan from feeling any discomfort with the avatar.

At the same time, it was also to realize a method that Lenok himself could not do, which was to ignore Edan’s attacks by turning his body into plasma.

It was good that he had taken Edan’s attack and confirmed his identity at the last moment of the offensive, but the problem was what came after.

Immediately after that, Edan’s own blood was injected to forcibly make Lenok’s talent explode.

As the avatar went berserk in that process, the backlash was flowing back to Lenok himself.

Kugugugu…!!

“Ugh…!!”

Every time he couldn’t hold back and vomited heat, hot, sticky blood dripped down.

The blood, as hot as if it would burn his esophagus, flowed back through his mouth and damaged his body.

Inside Lenok, a hot fire raged, causing a turmoil that seemed to burn his stomach to a crisp.

A fierce backlash that pounded, tore apart, and scorched all the organs in his body with fire.

Lenok, leaning against the conveyor belt while breathing heavily, hardened his expression.

‘It’s not just because I was hit by Edan’s ability. This is the avatar’s own…’

Edan’s attempt to forcibly make Lenok’s talent explode and check its origin.

But Lenok knew from the beginning that such a thing was impossible.

Lenok’s talent was an absolute that even the Ascended and Transcendent beings could not even discuss its limits, let alone touch it directly.

It was not a concept that could be taken away or taken back by others, even if they borrowed the power of the project.

But even so, the reason why Lenok was being swept away by such a strong backlash from Edan’s ability.

That was because it was not Lenok himself who was hit by Edan, but the avatar that Lenok was manipulating.

The secret that Edan was hiding. The lingering feelings he had and the goal he had left in Balkan.

Even the fact that he was using the ‘power’ he had gained through the project through the legion.

Many secrets that he would never have been able to find out if he hadn’t faced him until the end using the avatar.

But-

‘The avatar, which had been unstable since before the parade, has reached an irreversible level with that just now?’

While accepting Lenok’s rampaging electric magic, the avatar was also going out of control and berserk.

The avatar, which had been forcibly suppressing and manipulating such signs, seemed to have completely crossed the line with what had just happened.

He had canceled the avatar technique and recovered the avatar, but the backlash had already begun to eat away at Lenok’s body.

“Haa, haa…!!”

At the moment the fight with Edan reached its conclusion, he had somehow managed to create distance and reach the vicinity of the factory area.

Even so, he had to keep moving without stopping here.

Since he had completely destroyed the headquarters, all the legions that had attended the parade would have noticed the anomaly.

Once they grasped the situation, there was a high possibility that they would start searching the operation area soon.

Kuhwaaaak!!

Formless magical power was constantly emitted from Lenok’s entire body, smashing and exploding the surroundings.

It was the best he could do to barely maintain consciousness while sitting down, let alone gather himself and move.

If he were to faint in this place, it would be practically the same as dying at that point.

The moment Lenok raised his trembling hand and pulled up his magical power to use even a spark of healing.

“If you use magical power in that condition, the blood in your entire body will flow in reverse.”

Tap!

Someone grabbed Lenok’s wrist with a cold hand from the side.

“It would be better to refrain. Unless you want to die here.”

“…Eupheria…?”

A white-haired woman with an expressionless face was standing next to Lenok, looking down at him.

She let go of his hand, knelt in front of Lenok, and pulled up her magical power.

“Your cognitive ability hasn’t broken down yet. If it’s this much, emergency measures will work.”

Primal Magic: Creation Manipulation

Six Types – Inner Method

[Stasis]

Fwaaaat!!!

At the same time as a warm green glow settled on Lenok’s body, it conveyed warmth.

The boiling body temperature gradually lowered, and the focus in Lenok’s eyes became clear.

Lenok, who slowly adjusted his stabilizing breathing, raised his gaze and asked.

“…What are you doing here?”

“The second patient who was scheduled for treatment in a deal with the legion command did not arrive at the scheduled time.”

Eupheria answered while infusing a life technique into Lenok’s body.

“Because of that, I was waiting near the factory to receive the ‘parts’ that were the price of the deal.”

“…….”

Certainly, now that he heard it, he remembered.

The reason why Eupheria had made a deal with the legion command was to receive the parts needed for the reconstruction of Kundara.

He had vaguely thought it was a necessary item and passed it over, but he never thought it would be parts produced in a factory.

“Immediately after receiving the parts, a problem broke out at the headquarters, and all the people involved were moving.”

Eupheria stared at Lenok with an expressionless face.

“So, it was you who did it.”

“…Yeah.”

The skill of repairing Lenok’s body, which had been messed up, and boosting his vitality.

The moment Lenok felt that his energy was recovering enough to move, Eupheria said.

“The [Stasis] I use is just a technique for emergency measures. It’s not about improving the condition, but about stopping it at a point where you can keep your life.”

“…….”

“But even considering that, your body is accepting my life technique with very high efficiency. This means that you either have an incredible talent for life-related techniques-”

Eupheria stared intently at Lenok.

“Or it’s because you are a user who has mastered primal magic like me.”

“…….”

Neither was wrong.

In fact, Lenok had learned the essence of the Primal Magic Saint Lotus Eight Extremes from Maleon Gnosis.

Just as Lenok was about to answer, Eupheria lowered her gaze towards Lenok’s wound and said.

“And I think that either way, it seems like a good enough reason to keep you alive.”

“…I see.”

“If you’ve recovered enough to move, get up.”

Eupheria, who had stopped the technique and stood up, looked down at Lenok.

“I don’t intend to leave the headquarters right away, but at least I’ll accompany you to the direction where you can escape.”

“…….”

Certainly, as Eupheria said, his recovery speed was quite fast, and he was able to walk.

Lenok got up from his seat and walked with difficulty through the empty facilities of the military factory.

A quiet space where only the footsteps of Lenok and Eupheria echoed.

Eupheria, who was walking with an expressionless face, asked.

“Can you tell me what happened?”

“…I met my enemy and confirmed what I wanted to ask.”

Lenok raised his gaze.

“It was different from what I had thought, but rather, it might have been as I had thought.”

“…….”

What had Lenok been expecting before meeting Edan?

Did he expect that he would answer the truth of the project for Lenok, or that he would help Lenok even now?

He knew from the beginning that the possibility was slim.

That the reason why he had returned to the legion was solely for his own purpose and direction.

That he might not be the person from the past that Lenok knew anymore.

He had only now confirmed the truth he had vaguely expected and his betrayal with his own eyes.

While Lenok was lost in thought, Eupheria pointed to a passage at the end of the space.

“That direction leads to the north gate of the 2nd headquarters outside the military factory.”

“…….”

“If you leave the operation area through there and head north, you will be able to reach the North Continent soon.”

“…Is that so?”

Lenok, who smiled weakly, slowly turned his steps.

Lenok, who was standing in front of the door leading out of the factory, muttered.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s time to be saying such things yet.”

“…Huh?”

At the same time as the iron door opened and light poured in, a deafening roar exploded.

Kugugugugu!!!!

The countless production facilities of the military factory that stretched to the end of the horizon, and the vast plains on both sides.

The army of tanks, lined up in formation in every visible space, surrounding this place and aiming their cannons.

The squadrons of fighter jets flying in the sky, and the huge aerial fortress that had risen above the sky of the headquarters in the distance.

The countless roars and lights from both the ground and the sky resonated, creating thousands of streams of heat.

“Wait, this is…”

[Evan Martinez.]

A cold male voice echoed through the speakers installed on the upper part of the factory.

[Terrorism committed at the legion headquarters. Insurrection against the enemy. Based on Article 44 of the Military Law, your execution order has been issued.]

Clank!!

The tank cannons tilted in unison, aiming at this place.

The sonic boom of the fighter jets intensified, tilting as if they were about to drop bombs on the ground.

[The responsibility for doing this right after the promotion ceremony. You will pay the price for mocking and insulting the entire legion.]

“…I see.”

He had thought it was strangely quiet around him, but it turned out that this entire area was already surrounded.

Judging by the way Eupheria’s presence was shaking as if it was agitated, it was probably not a trap led by this long-lived species.

If that were the case, she wouldn’t have bothered to heal Lenok with a life technique in that place.

“Evan Martinez. Let’s move.”

Eupheria turned her gaze with an unusually fast tone.

“If we move before the encirclement is complete, we can escape the operation area. For now, here-”

“No.”

Lenok, who had interrupted Eupheria’s words, coughed weakly and walked out.

“It was something I had prepared for when I faced Edan… I knew it from the beginning.”

“…Martinez?”

The journey of leaving Balkan with a thousand identities and traversing the East Continent.

Meeting Eupheria Aosel, visiting the cities massacred by the conquerors, and facing the ghouls.

Encountering the 5th Legion, attending the parade, undergoing the promotion ceremony, and having a one-on-one meeting with Edan.

Perhaps, he should have done this from the beginning.

He had been turning a blind eye, thinking that if he met Edan, Lenok would be able to hear the truth he so desperately wanted to know.

That once he heard the truth of the project, he would finally be able to feel at ease.

Even after learning the identity of the Black Consumer Project, he still had lingering doubts.

He now acknowledges and finally accepts the price of the truth.

He burns all the time and causality he has built up until now as firewood and turns it into magical power.

In the center of the barrage pouring down from the sky and the ground, Lenok closed his eyes and chanted as if whispering.

“Release… Start.”

KWAAAAOOOOONG!!!!

A dazzlingly burning flame body rose around Lenok, rotating in unison and scattering heat.

The complex magic circle wrapped around the flame body rotated gracefully like the rings of a planet, adding to the brilliance.

A strange phenomenon where the heat that had transcended its limits did not allow matter to take shape, scattering everything.

An overwhelming sight as if several planets unfolded around Lenok, each orbiting in a different orbit.

The ultimate of the amplification secret technique that uses a spark as a magical power core, burning it and operating it as an engine and power source.

“Red Star Realm: Solar Zenith.”

Kugugugugu!!!

The backlash that was swallowing the avatar’s rampage and getting stronger in real time. The magical power that was shaking unstably and going out of control.

But even with his current body, which had become difficult to use flame magic properly, there was still something he could do.

The eighth spark that Lenok had newly obtained with a thousand identities.

The most overwhelming and vast power among all the stars in the Red Star Realm.

Unfolding it against the Dead Rise legion gathered from all over the continent-

“Eighth Star: Geopcheon.”

Lenok, who slowly opened his eyes, raised his hand and muttered.

“Summon the Solar Ship Megiddo.”